rhagades

1. 1.

   cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus)

   Broaderskin disease

Other forms of rhagades

plural

rhagadeses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rhagades

What does rhagades mean?

rhagades means "cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus)".

How many syllables are in rhagades?

rhagades has 2 syllables and divides as rhaga-des under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.